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The ABA House of Delegates resoundingly defeated Resolution 105, the proposed revision to Standard 316, which would require all law schools to achieve a 75% bar pass rate for all ...

This is the first post in a three-part series about the marketing of oscillococcinum. Part Two is here; Part Three is here. As explained in a recent post on the…

Shel Silverstein was born in Chicago, where he grew up in the working class Logan Square neighborhood (which has lately become home to artists and vegan restaurants). He is probably ...

Penn State Dickinson Law School has named Danielle Conway as it's new dean.  She is currently the dean at Maine Law, a position she has held since 2015.  She will…

Over the years, I have developed some rubrics for writing that I try to follow without exception. They are not the standard editing rules (which I also respect), but rather…

Stanford Law professor Marcus Cole has been named the new dean of the University of Notre Dame School of Law.   He joined the Stanford faculty in 1997.  Cole is a…

This just in: THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LAW SCHOOL is seeking to hire a visiting professor for the fall 2019 semester and/or the spring 2020 semester. For more information about…

BDS is the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel. In the below video, the Prime Minister of Canada explains why he opposes it:  

There are many good reasons – both humane and political – to wish Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a speedy and complete recovery from her recent lung cancer surgery. ...

The New Riders of the Purple Sage opened for the Grateful Dead at the famous Berkeley Community Theater concert in the summer of 1971 -- from which I was kicked ...